entraînant

\ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“entraînant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,996
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui entraîne, qui provoque un effet stimulant (ne s’emploie qu’au figuré).

Corpus desk

Index FR-entrainant · entraînant · French

entraînant · rank #9,996 · 16 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,996
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH enquêter

Nearest frequency peer: enquêter (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « entraînant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « entraînant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

entraînant vs entraînent
90% similar
entraînant vs entraîna
80% similar
entraînant vs entraient
70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for entraînant
PropertyValue
Headwordentraînant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#9,996
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entraînant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).entraînantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « enquêter » (#9,995), « engins » (#9,994), « enceintes » (#9,993). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « entraînant » est au #9,996. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around entraînant (IPA \ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,996 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui entraîne, qui provoque un effet stimulant (ne s’emploie qu’au figuré).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for entraînant, with forms such as "enntraînant", "enrtaînant", and "entarînant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "entraînent", "entraîna", "entraient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is entraînant, spelled E-N-T-R-A-Î-N-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui entraîne, qui provoque un effet stimulant (ne s’emploie qu’au figuré).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how entraînant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un style entraînant.
  2. Une éloquence entraînante.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • enntraînant
  • enrtaînant
  • entarînant
  • entrainant
  • entranîant
  • entraîannt
  • entraînannt
  • entraînantt
  • entraînatn
  • entraînnant
  • entraînnat
  • entrraînant
  • entrîanant
  • enttraînant
  • etnraînant
  • netraînant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entraînant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

enntraînant1enrtaînant2entarînant2entrainant1entranîant2entraîannt2entraînannt1entraînantt1
Edit distance from "entraînant"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "entraînant"?
"entraînant" is spelled E-N-T-R-A-Î-N-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃\.
What does "entraînant" mean?
As an adjective, "entraînant" means: Qui entraîne, qui provoque un effet stimulant (ne s’emploie qu’au figuré).
What words are commonly confused with "entraînant"?
"entraînant" is commonly confused with "entraînent", "entraîna", "entraient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "entraînant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "entraînant" is \ɑ̃.tʁɛ.nɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "entraînant" come from?
"entraînant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "entraînant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list